method

humanize

v3.2.8 - Show latest stable - Class: ActiveSupport::Inflector

humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word)

public

Capitalizes the first word and turns underscores into spaces and strips a trailing “_id”, if any. Like titleize, this is meant for creating pretty output.

Examples:

"employee_salary" # => "Employee salary"
"author_id"       # => "Author"

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb, line 94
    def humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word)
      result = lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s.dup
      inflections.humans.each { |(rule, replacement)| break if result.gsub!(rule, replacement) }
      result.gsub!(/_id$/, "")
      result.gsub!(/_/, ' ')
      result.gsub(/([a-z\d]*)/) { |match|
        "#{inflections.acronyms[match] || match.downcase}"
      }.gsub(/^\w/) { $&.upcase }
    end

humanize

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